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Foster Parenting: Resources for Child Welfare Caseworkers and Professionals

Improving assessment of foster parents' needs, engaging foster parents as team members in case planning, and providing supportive services to foster parents are key strategies for improving permanency and well-being outcomes for children in foster care.

Information Gateway website sections that provide information and resources about:

• Assessing foster parents
• Engaging foster parents in case planning
• Supportive services for foster parents

Assessing foster parents

Out-of-Home Care

• Cultural competence in working with resource families
• Assessing resource families

Systemwide

• Assessing resource families
• Cultural competence in working with children and families

Achieving & Maintaining Permanency

• Preparing foster/adoptive parents

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Engaging foster parents in case planning

Out-of-Home Care

• Foster parent-birth parent relationships
• Parent-child visits

Family-Centered Practice

• Family group decision-making approaches
• Family mediation

Achieving & Maintaining Permanency

• Preparing foster/adoptive parents
• Foster parents' role in supporting permanency
• Preparing children and youth for permanency
• Working with the courts for permanency
• Concurrent planning
• Transition and postplacement support
• Permanent placements with relatives

Systemwide

• State laws on making permanency plans for children in care
• Training for caseworkers: Out-of-home care

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Supportive services for foster parents

Out-of-Home Care

• Supporting and retaining foster families
• Support services for relative/kinship caregivers
• Support services for foster parents
• Related resources: Foster parents

Achieving & Maintaining Permanency

• Preparing foster/adoptive parents

National Organizations

• Foster Care
• Kinship Care/Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

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Updated on December 12, 2008